The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
Tuesday April 25, 2017
Volume 101 Issue 40
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Tennis eyes Affordable housing scarce Big West title HOMELESS IN OC
Captains, coaches credit camaraderie for successful year. TAYLOR ENGLE Daily Titan
FULLERTON— The past four years, the Cal State Fullerton women’s tennis team and coaching staff have made their way to an empty classroom in the Kinesiology and Health Science Building during their first week of practice. Once there, everyone on the roster blurts out what sounds like an unorganized cacophony to the untrained ear, but what is actually a declaration of their goals for the season. Amidst the madness, the team captains attempt to trim the list to just five. This season, the Titans decided to aim for a team GPA of over 3.0. They also wanted to be ranked nationally and to finish with a winning record (they managed the second, but not the first). The Titans didn’t quite hit their goal of going undefeated in Big West play, and with the conference championship coming up next weekend in Indian Wells, they still have one box left to check. “We still can knock out some goals that we set at the beginning of the year, and that’s to win the Big West Championship,” said senior and team captain Alexis Valenzuela. CSUF’s tennis team owes its success to hard work, persistence and some words from Head Coach Dianne Matias. “A lot of it just comes down to, ‘How bad do you want it?’” Matias said. The Titans wanted it enough to post their best record in program history (183) and part of the team’s success is due to the fact that it is comprised entirely of sophomores, juniors and seniors with experience playing college tennis. The two seniors on the team (Camille De Leon and Alexis Valenzuela) have been partners since their junior year, and their chemistry helped the Titans avoid losing the doubles point until their final match of the season. “Playing with Lexi is really great because she tells me to relax and not be too nervous and just have fun,” De Leon said. SEE TENNIS 6
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In the chart above, “length unknown” refers to an existing waitlist with an unspecified length, while “N/A” refers to no available waitlist information. A 2016 assessment of homeless services by the Orange County Executive Office recommended “increased development of affordable housing units and options.”
Thousands affected by lack of low-income options in Fullerton. ASHLYN RAMIREZ BRYANT FREESE Daily Titan
Thousands of homeless people need affordable rental housing in Orange County, but if they want a place in Fullerton, they’ll probably end up on a waiting list. Fullerton has about 20 apartment complexes that offer roughly 1,100
affordable units, most of them for families, most with waiting lists. Four apartments have stopped taking names. Las Palmas Apartments on Associated Road closed its list when it hit 50 names. Orange County’s website
has a link to a list of affordable housing units, but it may not be complete. Families who would like to live in the Allen Hotel Apartments off south Harbor Boulevard face a six-year wait, the longest listed for Fullerton on the Orange County
Community Services website. Someone who is disabled or a senior citizen will have to wait four to five years to get a unit at Amerige Villa Apartments off west Amerige Drive. SEE HOUSING
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CSUF student beats waiting list
Living near campus grants independence.
AMY WELLS BAILEY CARPENTER Daily Titan “I was lucky,” said Logan Harrison, sitting with his corgi in the courtyard of his affordable housing complex in Fullerton. The 28-year-old linguistics graduate student lives at Casa Maria Del Rio, an affordable housing complex for the mobility impaired. The apartments currently have a twoyear waitlist. “I contacted them. And they were like, ‘Actually, we do have a vacancy,’ which is unusually rare,” Harrison said. In 2012, Harrison was living with family in Yorba Linda and Fullerton while he tried to secure a permanent place to live. A close friend helped him with his housing search and told him about the Casa Maria Del Rio apartments. SEE ACCESSIBLE
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Graduate student Logan Harrison said he feels “lucky” to have found a vacancy at his affordable housing complex five years ago when he moved back to Fullerton to pursue his education.
Associate professor shares family history
Welcome to CSUF Day showcases school
We shouldn’t have to march for science
Jonathan Markley recounts his grandfather’s World War I experiences in a talk at Fullerton Public Library Monday.
Potential Titans were shown the ins and outs of campus and class life by student volunteers and department heads.
The presidential administration has shown that it prefers alternative facts to tangible evidence and proven theories.
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